The Iola register., 1887-06-24

The wheat crop Of Canada and Manitoba
| 10 said to be the best on record and to De
growing finely.
AT the sale Of Lord Crawford's library
| the other day the Mazarin, otherwise the
Gutenberg, Bible, the earliest book printed
| with movable metal types, in It's original
| oak boards, was put up at G65O and sold for
H2,65O. Tyndalps Pentateuch. in black let
ter, brought e255, and Tyndall's New Testa-
| ment e93O. Miles Coverdale's Bible in
English, black letter, with wood cuts-the
first English Bible printed-brought fs8.
AN earthquake shock was felt in the de-
partment Of La Vendee, France, on the
18th, frightening the people but doing no
damage.
The British jubilee celebration began on
the 18th with a banquet and ball at
tended by the Prince Of Wales and other
| notables.
AN exhibition of food products was
opened in Amsterdam on the 18th.
SMALLPOX is reported epidemic in Cardiff,
Wales.
A DISASTROUS fire was reported raging in
Lulea, Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia. A
| church, the town hall and many other build
| ings along several streets were burned.
THE police of Berlin have prohibited the
circulation of the Chicago Eorkman's Ga
se.te.
MILE. GAUssEN, a young woman, exc.
cuted at Amiens, France, recently for mat
ricide, was taken to the scaffold barefooted
and wearing q white robe and black veil.
AMERICAN missionaries report famine
in Asia Minor.
The revolution which broke out in the
province of Tucuman, Argentine Republic,
was suppressed with the loss of 400 lives.
The Governor and chief officers of the prov
ince were taken prisoners.
YELLOW FEVER is reported at Guaymas
and other points on the western coast OF
Mexico.
THE German Reichstag has passed to its
second reading the Sugar bill as reported
by the committee.
JAMES G. BLAINE and party reached
Southampton, England, on the 10th, and
were met by Mr. Pendleton, American Mn
lister to Germany
The steamer Vidette of the Mobile Il
New York steamship line went down June
13 in the Gulf of Mexico. The officers and
crew were saved. Loss, 100000.
THE Wholesale Liquor Dealers National
Association has made an assessment of ten
cents per barrel on old rye and bourbon
whisky for the purpose of fighting prohibi-
tion in Texas.
! take any steps at present looking to a
Mediterranean canal or the deepening of
the Seine.
EIGHT hundred houses in Botuschany,
Roumania, have been destroyed by fire and
seven persons killed.
The Lord Mayor of London recently en-
tertained at a banquet a large number Of
notable actors and actresses. The affair
was much appreciated by the profession.
FIVE hundred men in the garrison at He
rat, Afghanistan, mutinied June ., but
were defeated and captured after eighty
men had been killed.
RECENT advices from Honolulu stated
that a revolution was imminent in Hawaii
and that King Kalakaua's life was threat
| ensd.
A SENSATION was recently caused in Paris
by the abduction of the Countess Mercedes
Martinez-Ca Campos, young and wealthy
Cuban heiress. There were reports that
the lady was a consenting party and the
abduction was engineered by her lover, who
desired to evade the marriage Jaw.
THE paper factory at Kieff. Russia, burned
recently. Loss, S25O,OOO.
BUSINESS failures jDun's report) during
| the seven days ended June IL, numbered
for the United States, 1913; for Canada, %;
total, 2l3, compared with LIB the previous
week, and l55 for the corresponding week
of last year. The increase arose from the
wheat excitement in Chicago and the West.
In other sections of the country the busi-
ness troubles appeared to be lighter than
usual
THE Canadian Pacific steamer Artha-
baska ran ashore on the Isle of Cones,
Georgian Bay, Ont, on the 10th. No lives
lost.
AT the Ennis Qreland) special court on
the 18th forty-three persons, thirty-three
being women, were arraigned on the charge
of assaultin&and obstructing the police dur.
ing the cvictions at Bodvke.
Mosr of the Gladstonians and all Of the
| Parnellites abstained from voting in the
closing committee scenes on the Irish
| Crimes bill in the British Commons on the
| 18th. The offer of further amendments
will be postponed until final action is taken
ON the bill.
THE Hawaiian ConsuLGeneral in London
denies the stories circulated about troubles
| having arisen in King kalakaua's dOmin-
ion and the possible deposition of the King.
He says the stories were probably put into
currency by a knot of disaffected politi-
clans.
EDITOR O'BRIEN, on his return to Cork,
Ireland, was enthusiastically received and
the freedom of the city presented to him.
THE rATESr